Well, Im somewhere in downstate illinois, but I'd recommend a farmers market near you. Failing that, farm supply stores sometimes have local products. Depends on where you are, but your local chucks sneed and feed is always a good bet. If they don't have it, they may at least be able to tell you where to get it.
Bell peppers are pretty easy to grow indoors and most seeds you can buy are self flowering. Plants typically get to be about 2 feet for a good sized pepper though they will be smaller than the larger store bought ones and are pretty difficult to kill as long as you keep the thing watered. I lucked out with finding a hydroponic garden at a thrift store prior to the pandemic and bought it to see if I could successfully grow anything before I spent the money investing in an actual garden (plus the husband didn't want me dragging dirt everywhere). Tomatoes are a similar ball game but they don't have the leniency of peppers (they can be not quite ready to pick yet only for them to be rotten the next day depending on the type). Most fruits are a labor of love because the plants have to mature for years before they actually produce fruit you can eat (traditional apple trees take roughly 10 years to mature while the dwarf varieties take about 2-4).
Butter is extremely easy to make because it's essentially churned cream. If you're in a pinch, put some heavy cream in a jar and add a little bit of salt, close it and shake it until butter happens. Take butter out of jar and put it in a separate container and save the liquid left over (it's buttermilk and good in biscuits and pancakes). You can also technically do this with a blender/food processor and if you stop early you'll have whipped cream. Margarine is 2 chemical compounds away from plastic, it isn't good for you.
Why in God's name would anyone willingly choose margarine over butter?
It's a maritime society as opposed to an agricultural one, so milk wasn't readily available but whale and seal oil were, then it just becomes a cultural thing.
The only margarine I've seen has been made with hydrogenated vegetable oil. Maybe it's vegan?
Oh, it's not made with whale or seal oil here anymore. It's also not made with hydrogenated oil as those are banned in Canada. Usually palm oil or canola oil now. Here's the one I usually buy, for example.
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Wouldn't seal fat be lard? At any rate it sounds way better than the hydrogenated poison little old ladies insist on cooking with, here.
Insert joke about global warming and rising atmospheric CO2 being a lie. It would be infeasible energetically, but I would love to build an atmospheric CO2 scrubber that can capture and concentrate CO2 from the air directly into soda fountains. I could get funding from all the environmental groups and eventually cheap (or even free with above green subsidies) soda all for myself.
Lol.....fuck. Get ready to take photos of stores near you soon.
I’m in the coastal area in the south where all the farms are so I think I’ll be good
Traditional margarine made from animal fat is completely different from the margarine today made with vegetable oil. The difference between animal margarine and rendered fat like lard and suet is the processing. I don’t know if animal margarine has trans fats, but vegetable margarine does.
Your neighbors are much more likely to complain about a crowing rooster than hens.
I wish them luck
